A Peaceful Easy Feeling

Our days are getting noticeably longer, darkness now falls around 5:30 each evening.

Mother Nature sent us sunshine today, sixty five degrees worth of the stuff, encouraging us to break out of our cabin-fever mold, and delight in pottering around the garden.

The Robins are in abundance, busily pulling the earthworms from the moist soil, the nests are getting feathered, the Pussy Willow buds are awaking.

Daffodils are waving their sleepy heads in the noon day sun.
Not long now.

 

 

 

 

 

A peaceful sunset this evening.

Cooler temps, after a warm and breezy day.

Peace.....such a lovely thought.

 

Blue

Two of my favorite things........

English transferware and castles.

Royal Homes of Britain

Windsor Castle, Tower of London, Balmoral Castle.

 

Sleepover

The perfect way to spend a rainy day......napping.

 

All Change

 

 

 

Our days have been filled with glorious sunshine.

The daffodils are shooting up from the ground, offering the promise of spring.

I tidied around the porches and fiddled in the potting shed yesterday, it's hard to stay cooped up when the sun is shining.

After a welcomed, warm and sunshiny day, today it's back to rain, dark and dreary.

A cozy day to enjoy inside.

Wishing you peace, in whatever little corner of the world, you call home.....

 

 

    

 

 

 

 "Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so."

~Stanley Crawford

News From Gobbler's Knob

Rabbits have been making a show in the garden.

Nibbling on the new shoots of grass.

The songbirds are once again appearing , a good sign that life is beginning to awaken.

Punxsutawney Phil  has predicted an early spring, maybe in these southern states, the poor folks in other parts of the country, digging out of the snow, will be harder to convince......
We're having a balmy 70 degrees of sunshine today, how's that for a treat !
 

Under The Weather

 

 

The household is full of sickness, head colds,  coughing and spluttering. I've spent long days in bed, with Vicks as my companion.

Our state has been deluged with more than it's share of heavy rain and flooding, leading to soggy grounds and mold, which contributes to upper respiratory problems.

Homemade chicken soup is the order of the day, and lots of hot lemon tea.

Stay well friends.

 

Memories

I've been on a roll with my Spring cleaning.

Fluffing, and polishing and organizing.

I'll be repeating the same tasks a few months from now, but at least I've lightened my load.

The problem is, I seem to flit from room to room, and never really complete an entire project, before getting sidetracked with something else.

Such was the case the other evening.

I started off organizing my office cupboard, and discovered a box of photographs that I hadn't looked at in a long time.

Grandchildren from birth onward, through school days, and lazy afternoons spent at the park,  now young adults moving busily along with their own lives.

All those celebrations of birthdays, and Christmases, and planting times in the garden, with their little shovels and rakes.

I allowed myself to become completely absorbed in a time-warp.

Happy times, that hold so many sweet memories.

Where do the years go.

Escape to the Chateau Seasons 1-3 preview

My winter binge-watching favorite......

ESCAPE TO THE CHATEAU follows U.K. residents Dick Strawbridge and his partner Angel as they leave their two-bedroom flat in Southend for a beautiful 45-room chateau in northern France. The only problem is it doesn't have electricity, water, or proper plumbing.
https://binged.it/2RdS8ww

" Well done children "

Nesting

On a rainy day, what is better than napping inside a cardboard box.

Dust

I'm committing myself to doing a little dusting today.

Where does all the dust come from in the wintertime, it shows up uninvited every day.

We change the filters in the central heat system faithfully on the first day of the month, but no matter what, there always seems to be a layer of dust covering the tabletops.

Funnily enough, when warmer weather arrives, and I'm busy pottering outside, It doesn't come calling..... *smile*.